SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

+ Operates at height of a chaplain’s scope of practice consistently demonstrating all professional competencies that are required for board certification, including operating in evidence-based practice.

+ Serves as a specialist in spiritual/existential care on an interdisciplinary palliative medicine team: Attends daily interdisciplinary team meetings and collaborates with the interdisciplinary palliative medicine team, sharing important psycho-social, spiritual/existential and family dynamic concerns.

+ Collaborates with palliative care team to participate in family care conferences, advance care planning and medical decision-making, and other palliative generalist support within the chaplain’s scope of practice.


+ Works with an appropriate spiritual assessment model to fully assess spiritual and existential pain, drive chaplain’s interventions, and contribute meaningfully to the plan of care.
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